Clothesline apparatus



Nov. 30, 1948. c. 5. WEST v 2, 9

CLOTHESLINE APPARATUS Filed March 12, 1947 patented Nov. 30, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,455,203 I CLOTHESLINE APPARATUS Clifford s. West, Adams, Mass.

Application March 12, 1947 Serial No. 734,075

. v v 1 This invention relates to clothesline apparatus of the type disclosed in United States Letters Patent No. 2,242,563 issued to me on May 20, 1941. The principal object of the invention is the provision of clothesline apparatus which is adaptedfor securement to the side of a window casing and is arranged and constructed to-support theinner portion of an endless clothesline extending from the apparatus to a pully mounted at some distance fromthe apparatus.

According to the invention, the clothesline support is movable inwardly and is swingable from inoperative to operative position and is characterized by means to releasably lock the support in its operative position. 1

With the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of 3 Claims. (01. 211mm) my invention as will become more apparent'as' the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claims hereunto annexed and more fully described and referred to in connection-with the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of the clothesline apparatus of the invention shown in association with a window and in an inoperative position;

Fig 2 is a sectional elevational view of the view of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1 and in an operative position;

Fig. 3'is an enlarged sectional plan view'on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional elevational View on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 6 is an elevational view of the outer end portion of the slide of the clothesline support to show certain details of construction.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail, the invention will be fully described.

In Fig. 1 the side of a window frame is represented by 2 with sash 4 associated therewith.

A bracket or guideway 6 is secured to the side of the window frame and may include an outer casing 8 and an inner bearing ID.

A clothesline support includes a guide member I2 and a strut I4. The strut I4 is slidable and oscillatable in the bearing I0 and has a sleeve [6 fixed to its outer end. The strut I4 is loose in the sleeve IE to the extent it may turn within limits. A screw I8 in threaded engagement with the bearing has an inner end disposed in a slot 22transversely disposed in the member I4, see Fig.5. The member I4 may turn in the sleeve in opposite directions until opposite ends of the slot strike against the part 20.

The member I4 is tubular and has an outer curved end-24,--as shown in Fig. 2. The inner end of this member I4 has a bracket 26 secured thereto in which a pulley 28 is rotatable at 30. The inner portion of an endless clothesline may pass throughthe member I4 and over thepulley 28 and curved end 24 while the outer portion of the line may pass over a pulley secured to a support outwardly and remotely relative to the window.

The-support is shown in inoperative position in Fig. 1' and may be located in operative p0sition, as shown in Fig. 2, by moving it inwardly or to the right from the position shown in Fig. 1 I

and then swinging itso that the outer end thereof swings outwardly from the window. The inner end of the support is then inside the window so that the line extending outwardly from the pulley and beneath the support is accessible.

A-key 4D in theform of a bolt is screw threaded in the bracketv Band has an inner end 42 in a As the l themember I2 has been moved so that the key,

is in line. .Withsaid slot 46, the support I4 may be swung to its horizontal operative position.

From the lower end of the slot 46 a locking slot extends longitudinally towards the inner end of member I2. This slot 48 is relatively short and when the support has been swung to operative position, it is moved to the left so that the key is engaged in the said slot 48.

Thus the support and member I2 are moved to the right from the position in Fig. 1, then swung to operative position and finally moved to the left so that the key and slot prevent swinging of the support from operative position.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meanin and 3 purview and range of equivalency of the appended claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. Apparatus for supporting an inner portion of an endless clothesline adjacent a window comprising in combination, a bracket having a longitudinal cylindrical bore and adapted to be secured to the side of a window with the longitudinal axis of said here disposed horizontally, a cylindrical guide reciprocable and oscillatable in said here,

an elongated tubular support adapted to receive tudinal cylindrical bore and adapted to be secured to the side of a window with the longitudithe inner portion of the clothesline extendedv therethrough, said support having a curved outer end and a pulley at its inner end, abe'aring on said bore; an elongated tubular support adapted the inner end of said guide in which the support a is connected intermediate its ends with itslongitudinal axis disposed at right angles toth'at of" said guide, said guide provided with a continuous slot having a portion extending longitudinally from adjacent itsinner end towards its outerend and. a transverse portion, adjacent its outer end and a locking portionextendingl longitudinally from said transverse port-ionitowards the inner end thereof, anda key in said; bracket disposedin said slot, all adapted and arranged whereby with the guide in said bracket and the bearing thereof adjacent thereto and the support in vertical inoperative position said support may be; moved away from said bracket in its vertical. position and then swung to horizontal operative position and yfinally moved towardssaidbracket to locked 7 position.

2.1 Apparatus for supporting, an innerportion of anendless clothesline adjacent awin dow comprisin in combinatioma bracket ha in a longitudinal cylindrical bore and adapted to be secured to the side; of awindow withithe longitudinal axis of said bore disposed horizontally,a cylindrical: guide reciprocable and ioscillatable in said bore,. an elongatedtubular support; adapted, to receiver; the inner portion of the clothesline extended therethrough, said support havingeg curved outer endiand a pulley at its inner end, a bearing on thee inner end of said guide in which the support 'is'.

connectediintermediate its ends with itslongitudinalaxis' disposedat right angles tolthat of said: guide, said; guide provided with a continuous slot having a portion extending longitudinally from;

adjacent itsinner end; towardsits outer vend'and aitransverse portion adjacent its outer end and a.

lcckingwportion extending, longitudinally from-Q said:- transverse portion towardsthe inner end:

. nalaxisiof said bore disposed horizontally,a cyllindrical guide reciprocable and oscillatable in to receive theginnerportion of the clothesline extended therethrough, said support having a curved outer end and a pulley at its inner end, a bearing on the inner end. of said guide in which the supports. is connected interme diate it's ends with its 'lon-gitudinalaxis disposed at right anglesto 1 that of", said: guide, said guide provided. with: a-

continuous slot having a portionextending longitudinally from adjacent itsinner-enditowards its outerz end and a transverse portion adjacentits.

outer end and'a. locking. portion 1 extending lo ngi,-

tudinally from: said transverse. portion towards the inner. end; thereof, and a key in said bracket disposed in said slot, saidzkeyand slot arranged to" permitthe support to beemeved from an inop erativevertical position; wherein thembeari ng of; said .guideisrdisposed adiacentsaidbracket away from said bracket-= andrswina-tot horizontal-lytdis.-- V aposed operative positiontand: then moved towards said:.brackot into... locked position,. said bearing having: an inwardly and radially extending priojectioni and said'support provided with a .slot ex? tending throughout apart of its circumferencewhereby saidsupport'may turn in saidhearing. CLIFFORD -S.- WEST.

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